Sunday, August 05, 2007

The Abu Ghraib whistleblower speaks on BBC news.

From Raw Story:

When Joe Darby saw the horrific photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison he was stunned.
So stunned that he walked out into the hot Baghdad night and smoked half a dozen cigarettes and agonised over what he should do.

Joe Darby was a reserve soldier with US forces at Abu Ghraib prison when he stumbled across those images which would eventually shock the world in 2004.

They were photographs of his colleagues, some of them men and women he had known since high school - torturing and abusing Iraqi prisoners.

His decision to hand them over rather than keep quiet changed his life forever.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

I saw the young man on 60 minutes. His name was given publicly by Rummy because he did the right thing. This is an example of American Justice. Pat Tillman was murdered yet there still is a cover up. Notice the young man went to England. Bush is making our troops liars and killers. I hope God protects they young man and his family.
What the United States did in Abu Ghraib will be part of American History forever. Yes we are as seen by the world the real Axis of Evil. Let's hope that Bill Clinton can clean this up and let the world know we aren't like what they saw in Abu Ghraib during the Bush years.